Water-pan alarm



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L. SOMMER WATER PAN ALARM Filed Feb. 16. 1925 lnVe' for. J

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a Home Patented Oct. 13, 1925.

UNITED STATES LEO SUMMER, on ST. LIN, QUEBEC, CANADA.

WATEBrPAN ALARM.

Application filed February 16, 1925. Serial- No. 9,650.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEO SOMMER, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and residing at St. Lin, in the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in lVater-Pan Alarms, of which the following is the specification.

The invention relates to a water pan alarm as described in the present specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings that form part of the same.

The invention consists essentially of the novel features of construction pointed out broadly and specifically in the claim for novelty following a description containing an explanation in detail of an acceptable form of the invention.

The objects of the invention are to enable the housewife to attend to her inultitudinous duties without feeling the constant responsibility of emptying the refrigerator pan until it is actually full; to avoid flooding in households from neglect of attention to the pan under a refrigerator; to warnas well as to signal the alarm; to furnish a mechanism cheap to maintain and efficient in its operation; and generally to provide a durable and serviceable device for the purpose aforesaid.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an enlarged plan View of the mechanism for the alarm signal.

Figure 2 is a sectional view of the pan showing the positions at the operation of the alarm signal.

Figure 3 is a sectional view of the pan showing the positions at the operation of the alarm signal.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the various figures.

Referring to the drawings the water pan 10 is of the customary shape, that is to say,

comparatively shallow and open at the top and may be round or square as found most convenient.

This alarm signal mechanism is for indieating a full water pan and for that purpose is formed of the fixed crossed arms 11 and 12 and 13 and 14, the arms 12 and 14 having the eye ends 15 and 16 for the adjustable arms 17 and 18, which slide inwardly and outwardlyon the arms 12 and let to accommodate the frame to the different sizes of water pans. The fixed arms are braced by the guy ropes 19.

The arm 11 is reinforced by the rod' 20 extending from the centre of the frame to the end of said arm 11 and forming therewith a bracket 21 for the bell 22, the latter having an operating button 23 on the upper SIC e. I

The rocker arm 24 is pivotally secured to the frame at or about the guy wires 19 at one side, and extends along the reinforced arm 11 and therebeyond at the outer and into the contact lug 25, which is directly over the belt button 23, and at the inner end extends beyond the centre of the frame and carries the float 26 of cork or other suitable material, this float being suspended from the arm 24 by the hook 27 inserted through a suitable hole.

In the operation of this device, when the pan is full of water, the float will rock the arm and ring the bell, thereby notifying the housewife of the necessity to empty the pan.

lVhat I claim is In a water pan alarm, a frame formed of cross arms and slidable arms on certain of said cross arms and suitably held together, a bracket reinforcement from one of said arms, an alarm bell having a push butt-on and supported by said bracket, a rocker arm pivoted on said frame and extending into contact with said pushv button, and a float suspended from said rocker arm.

Signed at Montreal, Can, this 19th day of January, 1925.

LEO SOMMER. 

